On several occasions in this column of “Planet Earth”, in La Razón, we have referred to work sessions of the Plenary Session of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. In which members of the corporation intervene on issues of general interest. I consider it possible to apply that vision to the topic that was discussed last Tuesday, November 11, corresponding to the academic who subscribes to the dissertation on “War and Peace.”
The issue is more than current, especially when Trump and Putin are talking about nuclear weapons and carrier missiles with regrettable impudence, for something that could be total human folly (MAD).
I believe, therefore, that it will be good to review the five occasions in which attempts have been made to establish the principle of NO TO WAR. Starting with the founding idea of Immanuel Kant, in his 1795 essay “On Perpetual Peace.”
Since then, there have been two US presidents interested in a world organization to resolve conflicts, rather than going to lethal confrontation: the League of Nations with Woodrow Wilson (1919), and the United Nations with Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945). With good intentions in both cases, but with a veto right of the permanent partners, the big five, which is inadmissible as antidemocratic. Especially when the Charter of the United Nations itself of 1945 provided that after ten years, the suppression of that painful oligarchic system would come.
Furthermore, there have been intentions of perpetual peace such as the Briand-Kellogg Pact of 1928 and the Schuman Declaration of 1950, in favor of a universal peace without conditions, to free humanity from the most miserable scourge.
Let it be noted that the signatory will continue working to silence the noise of war forever.